International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 ~ 8887) Volume 97— No.3, July 2014 Design and Implementation of Weather Monitoring and Controlling System P.Susmitha Dept. of ECM KL UNIVERSITY Guntur (Dt), India ABSTRACT ‘Weather monitoring plays an important role in human life, s0| the collection of information about the temporal dynamics of weather changes is very important. In any industry during certain hazards itis very important to monitor weather. The fndamental sim of this paper is to develop an embedded system fo design a weather monitoring system which enables the monitoring of weather parameters in an industry. Such a system contains pair of sensors like temperature, Gas and humidity will be monitored and LPCI768 microcontroller (ARMS), The data trom the sensors are collected by the microcontroller and algo microcontroller sends the sensors data in o the LABVIEW by using the Serial Communication and this module will keep the data in excel page & also we can get the SMS in the mobile withthe help of GSM module ‘The system uses a compact circuitry built around LPCI768 (ARM9) microcontroller Programs are developed in Embedded C using the IDE Keiluvision4, JTAG is used for loading programs into Microcontroller Keywords LPCI768 (ARM9), Humidity sensor, Temperature Sensor, LABVIEW, GSM Modale 1, INTRODUCTION [An automated weather station is an instrument that measures and records meteorological parameters using sensors without intervention of humans, The measured parameters can be stored in a built-in data logger or can be transmitted to a remote location viaa communication link. Ifthe data is stored ina date logger, recorded data must be physically downloaded to a computer at a later time for further processing, ‘Therefore, the communication system is an essential element in an automated weather station. Today, automated weather stations are available as commercial products with variety of facilities and options [1-3]. Although automated weather stations can be built and implemented in remote parts of Sri Lanka to bring down the cost of maintaining weather stations, until recently, not mach emphasis has been given for building. and using such instruments locally. Automated weather stations have been developed in universities by interfacing meteorological parameter monitoring sensors 10 microcomputericommercially available data loggers with ‘communication devices or through serial and parallel ports to ‘obtain hard copies of weather data [46], Recently, the University of Colombo developed an automated. weather station with USB communication facility and a built-in data logging facility. The system used wired communication to transfer data to the monitoring station through the computer's builtin USB interface [7]. The present work is a further G.Sowmyabala Assistant Professor Dept. of ECM KL University, India ‘extension of the earlier developments. The main objective of this work is to develop @ standalone modular weather station ‘with a remote communiction facility to capture and transmit meteorological parameters Remotely monitoring of environmental parameters is important in various applications and industrial processes. In ‘atlier period weather monitoring systems are generally based ‘on mechanical, electromechanical instruments which suffer fiom the drawbacks like poor rigidity, need of human intervention, associated parallax errors and durability. Kang, and Park have developed monitoring systems, using sensors for indoor climate and environment based on the parameters ‘mentioned [1] in 2000. Combination of these sensors with data acquisition system has proved to be a better approach for temperature and relative humidity monitoring in 2005 (2) Viassov in 1993 introduces the usage of surface acoustic ‘wave's devices as temperature sensor [3]. This demand the development of a microcontroller based embedded system for ‘weather monitoring. Such a system should monitor and provide data for remote examine, The collected data by ‘weather monitoring system can easily be exported toa PC via 4 serial port to make subsequent data analysis or graphic and digital storage thus automatic data collection is possible ‘without giving up PC resources. 2. EXISTING & PROPOSED SYSTEM Jn the previous research, a single master-multi slave ‘microcontroller communication method has been developed, The microcontroller is able to communicate using unicast communication, ie. the master gave orders to one slave address via the master-slave network that has star topology. Then the slave who has the same address which is requested will respond or take action in accordance with the master command, Modbus Protocol ig the rules of data ‘communication with the master-slave technique. In these ‘communications thee is only one master and one or several slave which form a network, Master only do one ‘communication at a time, Slave will only communicate sf there is a command (query) from the Master and cannot ‘communicate with another slave. Addressing modes used by the Modbus there are 2, ic, unicast and broadcast (8), The design and implementation of weather monitoring & controlling system is the model with the ability to perform data acquisition on temperature, gas, humidity and accelerometer sensors atached, And it ean give these sensors data to ADC Port of LPCI768, It can also upload the data ‘continuously to excel sheet in LABVIEW with the help of S232 Cable and also receives SMS with the help of GSM.3. BLOCK DIAGRAM. Eo “= =| ‘aor [4 [fem oy aaa =] sar fe Fig 1: Block Diagram 3.1 Humidity Sensor “Humidity sensor works on the principle of relative humidity and. gives the output in the form of volte. This analog voltage provides the information about the percentage relative humidity present in the environment. A miniature sensor consisting of a RH sensitive material deposited on a ceramic substrate. The AC resistance (impedance) of the sensor decreases a relative humidity inreases. The Humidity Sensor is shown in below Fig2 Fig22, Humidity Sensor 3.2 Temperature Sensor ‘The LM3S is an integrated cireit sensor that can be used to measure temperature with an electial output proportional to the temperature (in °C), Ifthe temperature is high then the fan will on and vice versa, The Temperature Sensor is shown in Fig. ‘The scale factor is .OIV/C. The LMBS does not require any ‘extemal calibration or trimming and maintains an accuracy ‘of -0.4°C at room temperature and ~/-0.8°C over a range of °C wo H100°C, {International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 ~ 8887) Volume 97— No.3, uly 2014 Fig 3: Temperature Sensor 3.3 Gas Sensor Sensitive material of MQ-6 gas sensor is SnO which with lower conductivity in clean air. MQ-6 gas sensor has high sensitivity to Propane, Butane and LPG, also response to [Natural gas. The Sensor could be used to detect different ‘combustible ges, especially Methane; itis with low cost and suitable for different application, The Gas Sensor is shown in below Fig Fig. Structure and configuration, basic measuring circuit 3.4 LPC1768 ‘The LPC1768 is an ARM Cortex-M3 based microcontroller for embedded applications requiring a high level of integration and low power dissipation. The ARM Cortex-M3 CPU incorporates a stage pipeline and uses Harvard architecture with separate local instruction and data buses as ‘well asa third bus for peripherals ‘The peripheral complement of the LPCI7x includes up to 512k of flash memory, up to 64KB of data memory, Ethernet MAC, a USB interface that can be configured as either Host, Device, or OTG, 8 channel general purpose DMA controler, 4 UARTs, 2 CAN channels, 2 SSP controllers, SPI interface, 3. 12C interfaces, 2-input plas 2-output 128 interface, 8 channel 12-bit ADC, 10-bit DAC, motor control PWM, ‘Quadrature Encoder interface, 4 general purpose timers, 6 ‘output general purpose PWM, ulirz-low power RTC with ‘separate battry supply, and up to 70 general purpose LO pins. 4, SYSTEM SOFTWARE Tn this project ewo types of software's are used. They are + KEIL software for e programming + LABVIEW 1Visiond is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to help you write, compile, and debug emivedded programs. 204.1 FLOWCHART ia Gaseeaas ‘Fig.5. Flowchart 4.2 Experimental Results ‘The environmental monitoring data sensors automatically ‘monitor the temperature, humidity, Accelerometer and other ‘eas concentrations. It can realize the remote access of sensor ‘monitoring data and download of the environmental ‘monitoring data to the client according to requests, The simalaion result is shown below. 4.2.1 Schematic In this proteus, we take one Ipe1768 microcontroller and the inputs to the microcontroller are the sensors and give those Sensors to the each ADC Pins trom ADCO...6 except ADCS, ‘The Controller converts Analog data of sensors to Digital Using ADC pins and we ean see the Sensors data in Virtual terminal using Serial Communication. The schematic is as shown below fg 6. {International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 ~ 8887) Volume 97— No.3, uly 2014 8 proteus output 4.2.2 Hardware In this project, we have to acquire all the environmental parameters like temperature, humidity, gas and accelerometer ‘sensors and the measure these sensor values using ADC pins in LPCI768. Here in the above figure we use Multi sensor [Board for placing the sensors, and accelerometer sensor for checking the earthquake condition. And for the power supply Pmusing the 12v battery, Max Board is used for transmitting the data using serial communication. And also these sensor values will be displayed wirelessly on a Mobile using GSM ‘Hardware Sereen Shot, 4.2.3 Lab VIEW Results LABVIEW (short for Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench) is a platform and development environment for a visual programming language fiom [National Instruments. Tae graphical language is named "G' 2‘The data transmilting from the hardware can be received in Lab view using the serial communication. The read string displays the transmitted data, And here Different sensors & ‘those corresponding values are displayed with the indications like Metering ete, And in the Lab view itself we create ‘Excel File And Place the excel file in that folder because the updating or value changes ean also seen in the excel file like shown below. Fig. Lab VIEW Result 5. APPLICATIONS & ADVANTAGES 5.1 Applications 1. Used incoal mine, bio gas manufacturing centers. 2. Used in power plant generation. 3. Agriculture field monitoring 4. Home automation 5. Industral purpose 5.2 Advantages 1. This project can be use to save power. 2. Security purpose 3. Enhanced for monitoring & controlling of atmosphere conditions ICA: wwijeaonlineorg {International Journal of Computer Applications (0973 ~ 8887) Volume 97- No.3, uly 2014 6. CONCLUSION ‘This paper demonstrates Design and Implementation of Weather Monitoring & Controlling System used for controlling the devices aswell as monitoring the ‘environmental parameters. Embedded controlled sensor networks have proven themselves to be a religble solution in providing remote control and sensing for environmental ‘monitoring systems. The sensors have been integrated with the system to monitor and compute the level of existence of ‘Accelerometer, gas, temperature and humidity in atmosphere using information and communication technologies. The sensors can upload the data in Lab view using serial ‘Communication, 7, FUTURE SCOPE Adding of more sensors to monitor other environmental parameters such as Soil PH Sensor, CO2 and oxygen Sensor while allowing the replacing of current sensors if « wider range of measurements is desired. And also Integration of additional monitoring devices such as a Wi-Fi camera to ‘monitor growth of agricultural product. 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